Community Awards
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Congratulations to our faculty, staff, students, and postdocs who have won awards for their research, teaching, and scholarship.
2024-25 academic year
| Name | Award | Department(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Khalid Osman | Gulf Research Program Early-Career Research Fellow, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Alexandra Konings | AGU James B. Macelwane Medal | Earth System Science |
| Dustin Schroeder | AGU James B. Macelwane Medal | Geophysics |
| Ross Stein | AGU Paul G. Silver Award for Outstanding Scientific Service | Geophysics |
| Eric Dunham | AGU Union Fellow | Geophysics |
2023-24 academic year
| Name | Award | Department(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Hélène Benveniste | Steven and Roberta Denning Faculty Fellow in Global Governance for Sustainability | Environmental Social Sciences |
| Eeshan Chaturvedi | HE Weeramantry Global Fellowship for International Law on Sustainable Development | Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources |
| Steven Chu | Karl Compton Medal, American Institute of Physics | Physics, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Energy Science and Engineering |
| Kyle Douglas | Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Excellence in Teaching Award | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Hamdi Tchelepi | Appointed the Max Steineke Professor | Energy Science and Engineering |
| Alexandria Boehm | Appointed the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor in Environmental Studies | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Stephen Luby | Walter J. Gores Award | School of Medicine, Woods Institute for the Environment |
| Susanne Sokolow | Ecological Society of America Sustainability Science Award | Woods Institute for the Environment |
| Andrea Lund | Ecological Society of America Sustainability Science Award | Former PhD in the lab of Giulio De Leo, Oceans and Earth System Science |
| Giulio De Leo | Ecological Society of America Sustainability Science Award | Oceans, Earth System Science |
| Andrew Chamberlin | Ecological Society of America Sustainability Science Award | Oceans |
| Jenna Forsyth | TIME100 Health, 2024 | School of Medicine, Woods Institute for the Environment |
| Hae Young Noh | 2024 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Sarah Fletcher | NSF CAREER Award | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Ching-Yao Lai | 2024 Sloan Research Fellow | Geophysics |
| Howard Allan Zebker | Elected to the National Academy of Engineering | Electrical Engineering, Geophysics |
| Alexandria Boehm | Elected to the National Academy of Engineering | Civil and Environmental Engineering, Oceans |
| Rodolfo Dirzo | Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology, BBVA Foundation | Earth System Science, Biology |
| Anne Kiremidjian | Doctor Technices Honoris Causa (honorary doctorate) from Aarhus University | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Mark Jacobson | Worthy 100, 2023 | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Margariete Malenda | 1st place, Outstanding Paper Competition at the Geothermal Rising Conference | Geophysics |
| Aditi Sheshadri | 2023 Google Research Scholar Program recipient, Applied Science category | Geophysics |
| Ching-Yao Lai | 2023 Google Research Scholar Program recipient, Geo category | Earth System Science |
| Dustin Schroeder | 2023 Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education | Geophysics, Electrical Engineering |
| Jenna Davis | 2023 Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Lupe Carrillo | Honoree of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access in a Learning Environment (IDEAL) Honor Roll | Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion |
| Erik Sperling | Charles Schuchert Award | Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Rosemary Knight | AGU Ambassador Award | Geophysics |
| Yuan Wang | AGU James B. Macelwane Medal | Earth System Science |
| Rodney Ewing | 2023 William B. Heroy Jr. Award for Distinguished Service | Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Yuan Wang | Henry G. Houghton Award | Earth System Science |
2022-23 academic year
| Name | Award | Department(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Dick Luthy | 2023 Perry L. McCarty Founders Award | Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| Simona Onori | Class of 2022 SAE Fellow | Energy Science & Engineering |
| Gretchen Daily | Eminent Ecologist Award | Natural Capital Project (NatCap), H&S |
| Jorge Ramos | Eugene P. Odum Award for Excellence in Ecology Education | Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, H&S |
| Greg Deierlein | Honorary Member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute | Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| Anat Admati | Jeakicke Faculty Award | Environmental Behavioral Sciences, Graduate School of Business |
| Anat Admati | Wilbur Cross medal | Environmental Behavioral Sciences, Graduate School of Business |
| Patricia Bromley | Academy of Management Annals "Decade Award" | Environmental Behavioral Sciences, Education |
| Jon Krosnick | Malinda S. Mitchell Award for Service | Environmental Behavioral Sciences, Communication, Political Science |
| Anne Dekas | NSF CAREER Award | Earth System Science, Oceans |
| Barbara Simpson | NSF CAREER Award | Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| Erik Sperling | NSF CAREER Award | Geological Sciences |
| Jenny Suckale | NSF CAREER Award | Geophysics |
| Jack Baker | Named editor of Earthquake Spectra | Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| Jack Baker | William B. Joyner Lecture Award | Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| Anne Kiremidjian | 2023 Thomas Egleston Medal | Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| Rosemary Knight | Engineering News-Record 2022 Top 25 newsmakers | Geophysics, Earth System Science |
| Rosamund Naylor | AAAS Fellow | Global Environmental Policy |
| Tony Kovscek | Elected to the National Academy of Engineering | Energy Science and Engineering |
| Anirudh Allam | EEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award | PhD and Postdoc in the lab of Simona Onori, Energy Science and Engineering |
| Alexandra Konings | 2023 Sloan Research Fellow | Earth System Science |
| Kyle Pietrzyk | Lawrence fellowship | Energy Science and Engineering |
| Emily Snell | Goldwater Scholarship | Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Shiran Victoria Shen | International Public Policy Association Early Career Research Award | Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| Alicia Seiger | Business Insider as one of 10 global climate leaders | Precourt Institute for Energy |
| Juliet Nwagwu Ume-Ezeoke | Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans | Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| Howard Zebker | IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society's Fawwaz Ulaby Distinguished Achievement Award | Geophysics |
If you don't see an award listed here please reach out to sdss-awards@lists.stanford.edu.
Excellence in DEI Award
The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Excellence in DEI Award is presented to recognize individuals who regularly go above and beyond what is expected to create a more inclusive, just, and welcoming community at Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.